
5
FREEHAND CURRICULUM
The Inspectors are an essential part of FreeHand’s user interface. The tabs
and pop-ups in an inspector window change details about any selected
object. Choose Window > Inspectors to open one of these inspectors:
I n s p e c t o r What it does
Object Displays the position and dimensions of a selected object
S t r o k e Displays the stroke attributes of a selected path
F i l l Displays the fill attributes of a selected path
T e x t Displays text formatting of selected text
D o c u m e n t Displays thumbnail icons for each page in the document
and attributes for the selected page
Creating a Logo
In this part of the lesson, you’ll create a logo for Urban Basic
using some of the drawing tools in FreeHand. The objective of
this section is to learn how to create and manipulate shapes
and colors.
1 . Choose the Ellipse tool in the toolbox, press and hold the
Shift key to constrain the object, and draw a circle that is
about 250 points across. You can see the size in a window
on the Info toolbar (Figure 1-7).
2 . Choose Edit > Duplicate to create a copy of it.
3 . Now add some color to your shapes. Choose Window >
Panels > Color List to open the Color List (Figure 1-8).
Drag and drop a color chip onto one of the shapes to
change its fill color.
Figure 1-7
Use the Ellipse tool to make a
circle that is 250 points across.
Figure 1-8
The Color List and other panels
float on top of the pasteboard
and can be placed anywhere on
your screen.
Use the Color List to store, name, and apply
colors used in the document. Editing a Color
List color automatically changes the color of
objects with that color applied.
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